In 1634 AD, Wu Yingxiong was born in Xingcheng, Liaoning Province, he was the son of the famous general Wu Sangui, Wu Yingxiong was born very handsome from childhood, he walked steadily, revealing the style of the son of the general, his father Wu Sangui liked this son very much, Wu Yingxiong received a good education from a young age, his father Wu Sangui also personally taught him martial arts, in fact, Wu Sangui is selfish, he hopes that Wu Yingxiong will inherit his position in the future, so that the Wu family has been prosperous, Wu Yingxiong is only 10 years old, His father Wu Sangui surrendered to the Manchus and put the Qing army in Guannei, Wu Sangui helped the Qing Dynasty to destroy Li Zicheng's peasant army, and the Qing court married Princess Jianning, the daughter of Emperor Taiji of the Qing Dynasty, to Wu Yingxiong in order to "thank" Wu Sangui, essentially taking Wu Yingxiong as a hostage in Jingshi through political marriage, because the Qing court was always wary of Wu Sangui, and Wu Sangui agreed to Wu Yingxiong marrying Princess Jianning in order to show his determination to "allegiance" to the Qing court, so that Wu Yingxiong had to stay in Beijing as a hostage.
After that, Wu Yingxiong's father Wu Sangui led a large army to conquer many regions in the south, which helped the Qing Dynasty to complete the unification of the whole country, Wu Sangui was able to sit in the Yungui region, and was crowned by the Qing court as the King of Pingxi, the power of the Yungui region was firmly controlled by Wu Sangui, and because of the whip, the Qing court could not influence the affairs of the Yungui region, all the affairs of the Yungui region had to listen to Wu Sangui, even the inspector sent by the Qing court to manage the Yungui region had to obey Wu Sangui, and when Wu Sangui was called the king of the south, the Qing court continued to give Wu Yingxiong in the Capital Division an official In order to restrain Wu Sangui and not force him to rebel, the Qing court also asked Princess Jianning to appease Wu Yingxiong many times, asking him to persuade his father Wu Sangui to be honest and loyal to the Qing Dynasty, and in 1673, the Kangxi Emperor ordered the various clan kings in the south to cut the clans, which completely angered Wu Sangui, who had worked hard for the Qing court, and he planned to oppose the Qing.
Before Wu Sangui rebelled against the Qing, he first thought of his son Wu Yingxiong in the Beijing Division. Wu Sangui was worried that once he started an incident, Wu Yingxiong would be plagued, whenever he thought of this, Wu Sangui even cried with worry, Wu Sangui's men persuaded him to send someone to Beijing to pick up Wu Yingxiong, and then there was an incident, Wu Sangui sent his confidant Lu Shrimp to Beijing to pick up Wu Yingxiong, Lu Shrimp secretly sneaked into the capital and met Wu Yingxiong, somehow, Wu Yingxiong was unwilling to return to Yunnan, and Wu Yingxiong did not want to come back for two reasons: First, he knew that once he returned to Yunnan, the matter of his father Wu Sangui's rebellion was leaked in advance. Second, Wu Yingxiong and Princess Jianning are husband and wife for many years, the two sides have a deep marital relationship, he is reluctant to leave Princess Jianning, perhaps Wu Yingxiong thinks that he is the horse of the Qing court, even if his father rebels, the Qing court should not endanger him! In this way, Wu Yingxiong refused to come back under the domination of his own natural ideas.
Wu Sangui's confidants secretly made Lu Shrimp see that Wu Yingxiong was very stubborn, he had no choice but to return alone, but when Lu Shrimp returned, Wu Yingxiong also deliberately handed his young second son Wu Shipan to Lu Shrimp, and instructed Lu Shrimp to bring Wu Shipan back to Yunnan, if he Wu Yingxiong was gone in the future, let Wu Shipan take over the position of his father Wu Sangui, perhaps at this time Wu Yingxiong could vaguely foresee his future fate, Lu Shrimp failed to take back Wu Yingxiong, Wu Sangui was extremely uncomfortable, but the arrow had to be sent on the string. Sangui raised the banner of anti-Qing in 1673, and soon the news of Wu Sangui's rebellion reached the capital, and the Qing court learned of this, so the Qing court arrested and imprisoned Wu Sangui's son Wu Yingxiong, and Wu Sangui led a large army to attack the southern provinces, and most of the provinces fell into the hands of Wu Sangui, Wu Sangui's army took advantage of the victory and captured the northern gateway to Yuezhou City in Hunan, Wu Sangui did not let the Wu army take advantage of the situation to cross the river north to the Central Plains, but let tens of thousands of elite soldiers sit in Yuezhou to confront the Qing army along the Yangtze River.
Wu Sangui sent people to the Qing court to shout, and he hoped that the Qing court would return his son Wu Yingxiong and share the world with the Qing court. Wu Sangui's purpose of wanting to return to his son and negotiate peace with the Qing court was simply a woman's opinion, the Qing court could never agree to him, Wu Sangui's purpose was frustrated, he had not ordered the Wu army to cross the river north to the Central Plains and attack the heart of the Qing Dynasty, this was a huge strategic mistake, in 1674 AD, Wu Yingxiong was executed by order of the Kangxi Emperor, Wu Sangui learned the news of the death of his son Wu Yingxiong, he was very sad, Wu Sangui ordered the Wu army to launch a more fierce attack, but the Wu army had lost the north to cross the Yangtze River, With the fighters entering the Central Plains, because Wu Sangui was partial to a corner of the south and did not actively advance northward, the Wu army was finally completely wiped out by the Qing army in 1681, wu Sangui also died of illness in 1678, he could not destroy the Qing Dynasty until his death, and his son also died tragically under the butcher's knife of the Qing court! It can be seen that Wu Sangui did not have any political strategy, he was at best a military general, if he did not leave Wu Yingxiong in the Beijing Division, Wu Sangui's Wu Zhou Empire was replaced by Wu Yingxiong after his death, and this empire might have survived for a longer time.